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What's going on: the Reader heads online
The end of an era, but not the end of the Reader
On February 5th, I posted on X, "After 30 years of working at the San Diego Reader, I went and bought the thing. Looking forward to seeing what's possible."
Welp.
Video:
San Diego Reader ends print edition after 52 years
For whom the bell tolled, indeed.
Life, as they say, comes at you fast. But as Reader founder Jim Holman told the Union-Tribune, "It’s just a technological, cultural shift you can’t deny and you can’t fight." We fought longer than most, and I'm glad we did. But.
The other night, I ran into a colleague from my decade spent trying to fill just one of film critic Duncan Shepherd's giant shoes. He hadn't heard about my foray into ownership. When I told him, he replied, "You're the one? A lot of people are mad at you."
To all those people: I'm genuinely sorry. This wasn't what I wanted, or planned. As I told KPBS's Julia Dixon Evans, "When I bought it, it was with the express idea — I reassured our circulation manager, you know, day one, I want to not only maintain print, I want to invest more heavily in it. I want to re-up circulation to try to drive interest. I had some runway, I ran out of runway. And it's just not able to endure on that end of it."
Video:
A knife in the mud
I'm still fighting for the Reader. I want it to survive and thrive — to keep doing the things it has always done well, and to find new ways of doing them. I couldn't save the print edition. But that doesn't mean we're finished.
Found while cleaning out the Reader's storage unit. A bit the worse for wear, but no less true because of it.
I wrote the cover story for our final print edition. The touring company for the Broadway musical version of Billy Wilder's 1959 film Some Like it Hot was paying a visit to the Hotel Del Coronado, which had served as a location for the movie. I dropped by, and while I was mingling, I overheard Coronado mayor John Duncan ask a Hotel Del bigwig about the ongoing renovations. “There are very few pieces that haven’t been touched,” said the bigwig of the 1888 original structure, adding, “It’s all about what’s next.”
Despite numerous restorations, remodels, updates, and changes in ownership, the Del is still the Del — a local landmark, an icon of the city. It is my sincere hope that despite the shift to online, San Diego will be able to say — now and for years to come — that the Reader is still the Reader.
Here's something you might be interested in.
What's going on: the Reader heads online
The end of an era, but not the end of the Reader
What's going on: the Reader heads online
The end of an era, but not the end of the Reader
On February 5th, I posted on X, "After 30 years of working at the San Diego Reader, I went and bought the thing. Looking forward to seeing what's possible."
Welp.
Video:
San Diego Reader ends print edition after 52 years
For whom the bell tolled, indeed.
Life, as they say, comes at you fast. But as Reader founder Jim Holman told the Union-Tribune, "It’s just a technological, cultural shift you can’t deny and you can’t fight." We fought longer than most, and I'm glad we did. But.
The other night, I ran into a colleague from my decade spent trying to fill just one of film critic Duncan Shepherd's giant shoes. He hadn't heard about my foray into ownership. When I told him, he replied, "You're the one? A lot of people are mad at you."
To all those people: I'm genuinely sorry. This wasn't what I wanted, or planned. As I told KPBS's Julia Dixon Evans, "When I bought it, it was with the express idea — I reassured our circulation manager, you know, day one, I want to not only maintain print, I want to invest more heavily in it. I want to re-up circulation to try to drive interest. I had some runway, I ran out of runway. And it's just not able to endure on that end of it."
Video:
A knife in the mud
I'm still fighting for the Reader. I want it to survive and thrive — to keep doing the things it has always done well, and to find new ways of doing them. I couldn't save the print edition. But that doesn't mean we're finished.
Found while cleaning out the Reader's storage unit. A bit the worse for wear, but no less true because of it.
I wrote the cover story for our final print edition. The touring company for the Broadway musical version of Billy Wilder's 1959 film Some Like it Hot was paying a visit to the Hotel Del Coronado, which had served as a location for the movie. I dropped by, and while I was mingling, I overheard Coronado mayor John Duncan ask a Hotel Del bigwig about the ongoing renovations. “There are very few pieces that haven’t been touched,” said the bigwig of the 1888 original structure, adding, “It’s all about what’s next.”
Despite numerous restorations, remodels, updates, and changes in ownership, the Del is still the Del — a local landmark, an icon of the city. It is my sincere hope that despite the shift to online, San Diego will be able to say — now and for years to come — that the Reader is still the Reader.
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